anonymous September 12th, 2005 10:36PM  

I think the song is about taking life as it comes, and not trying to get involved in a rat race for money and success. The first stanza generally talks about being free and opening up. The second stanza talks about worrying too much about life, and then ending up not living it: "[unless]balance on the biggest wave, you'll race towards an early grave". This contrasts with the song Time, which is not by coincidence placed before the Breathe reprise.

Jeremy September 14th, 2005 11:19AM  

This song is just saying be free, dont care about what they'll say or who sees you, "leave but dont leave me" is just refering to go and find yourself but remember the loved ones you left behind. "And all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be". Experience life for all its majisty, then it goes into not conforming into the streotypical, white-collar yuppies that they try to make us "Run, run rabbit run Dig that hole, forget the sun, And when at last the work is done Don't sit down it's time to dig another one For long you live and high you fly But only if you ride the tide And balanced on the biggest wave You race toward an early grave." All this song is saying is be yourself and experience life.

Wakutiki October 12th, 2005 02:51PM  

This song is about your first breath of life. Being born into this world and being carefree because you don,t know what life is about. This song is the beggining journey through the rest of "life" (Dark Side of the Moon)

trppnblly December 20th, 2006 03:28AM  

you people are either crazy or just young. This song has nothing to do with acid or pot lol. no one except the band knows what exactly it's about and I'm not even sure that it really matters. Its a good song. lol acid trip..come one now.
peace

anonymous January 10th, 2007 07:21PM  

I think that this song is trying to say that you should never give up on life and that if you fall, you should at least try to get back up.

anonymous November 18th, 2007 08:45PM  

A. You have to assume this is not an acid trip, as it is excellently composed and created music, which might be imaginable if you were on acid, but not do-able - they could think of the song, but not write it on an acid trip, and they would not remember it afterwards

B. Take a look at the cynicism and sarcasm in the song, it becomes a lot easier to understand especially in the face of the rest of the album (which is drawn entirely together before the lyrics even start, with excerpts from each song)

Crazy_Diamond_89 November 27th, 2007 02:42PM  

I believe that this song can mean a million different things to every person. That is the genius of Pink Floyd however. When I hear this song I feel liberated. I feel like I'm free. LIfe is short. Too short to worry about money and possesions. Live is for peace and harmony. This songs best lyrics are "Leave but don't Leave me" man it speaks to me.

anonymous January 26th, 2008 11:48PM  

This song is about loving somebody that you know that you can't be with, but trying to make it work.

anonymous February 29th, 2008 09:23AM  

I have the lyric
"all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" tattoo'd on my ribs. to me that lyric just means to make the most of your life because your going to be remembered by others for that. That's all your life will mean to them. So make the most of it.

anonymous November 13th, 2008 08:51AM  

Definitely not about acid but I tell you what you ain't listened to this song until you did it on acid
beautiful shit

jesseteshara January 7th, 2009 02:27PM  

First of all, I disagree. All your life will ever be is, well, all 5 (6?) senses, for one thing. Secondly, it's all your decisions and relationships, and whatever meaning YOU decide to give your life, not what Pink Floyd tells you it is. That said, breathing is a common focus of meditation, and caring is well, the essence of all you need to know to be a good person, in my opinion. Sting sang if you love someone, set them free, but that can really sting, so to speak, and I subscribe to this lyric instead.

anonymous May 31st, 2009 01:27AM  

breathe, breathe in air, when your frying on acid everything looks like its breathing and alive. My first acid trip i sat in my room with my cousin, watched all my posters and listened to this album over over and over again untill it was morning. Everything just seemed to be related to how the cd played. Look at roger waters now, he's completly insane, its possible its all about tripping.